Social Impacts. Overnight injections of migrant workers will not build healthy communities and can have severely adverse impacts on existing communities, especially those of indigenous nations on their traditional lands. Such development brings vices and long term displacement too often. Drugs, alcohol and associated violence spreads. Hunting becomes difficult when the land is threatened, leading to a further loss of culture and tradition. In towns like Fort McMurray there is no planning for the future, but merely consumption in the present. However transient the individuals may be, the populations will not leave, as “development” takes on a logic all its own. All levels of run away development are subordinate to that development, not social need.
Oil patch feeding frenzy predicted
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070907.RRUBIN07/TPSto...
DAVID PARKINSON
September 7, 2007
The Canadian oil patch could be hit by a major round of takeovers by multinational giants in the next year, Jeff Rubin of CIBC World Markets predicts, as the global energy industry looks increasingly to Alberta's rich oil sands as one of the few major world oil reserves unfettered by political meddling.
Rah-rah-radicals
Changing the world, one pom-pom at a time
Francois Marchand, edmontonjournal.com
Published: Saturday, September 8, 2007
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/ed/story.html?id=96db584f-d46...
Samantha Power and her cheerleading squad are rehearsing their jumps and kicks and readying their rah-rah-rahs.
"It's a lot of practice," says Power, a former University of Alberta Students' Union president. "We want to be pretty tight. We have a few friends who have been cheerleaders before to teach us how to do those types of things."
Chinese Chill
CNPC executive announces China’s exit from the Gateway Pipeline Project
http://www.oilweek.com/articles.asp?ID=462
Andrea W. Lorenz
China has dramatically altered its international investment policy, pulling back on its plans for direct participation in Canada’s oilsands and withdrawing its support for Enbridge Inc.’s $4-billion Gateway Pipeline Project to deliver bitumen and synthetic crude oil to the west coast.
Federal regulators give favorable preliminary review of pipeline...
Sep 5 2007 5:02PM
Associated Press
http://www.kxmb.com/News/159289.asp
GRAFTON, N.D. (AP) The U.S. State Department has given a favorable preliminary review of a pipeline that would pump crude oil from Canada through South Dakota and six other states.
Stelmach decision worries oilpatch
Industry wonders if cancelling Marie Lake permits for bitumen mining hints at new rules for future
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/cityplus/story.html?id=9b00c5...
Archie McLean, The Edmonton Journal
Published: 1:50 am
EDMONTON - Premier Ed Stelmach's decision to halt seismic testing at a northern Alberta lake is raising concerns in the oilpatch over what it means for future projects.
Oil Pipeline Gets Preliminary Nod
By JAMES MacPHERSON 09.05.07, 5:40 PM ET
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/09/05/ap4086122.html
BISMARCK, N.D. -
The U.S. State Department has given a preliminary nod to a $2 billion pipeline that would transport crude oil from Canada through seven states.
The Keystone pipeline, a project of TransCanada Corp. (nyse: TRP - news - people ) of Calgary, Alberta, is planned to stretch more than 1,800 miles from Hardisty, in east-central Alberta, to refineries in Illinois, with a spur to Oklahoma.
Canadian Min Sees Tax Deal On Mackenzie Gas Project By Fall 2008
Dow Jones
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200709051521DOWJONES...
September 05, 2007: 03:21 PM EST
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Regional Canadian investment minister Brendan Bell said Wednesday that he believes the federal government may be able to negotiate a tax agreement with companies partnering on the Mackenzie gas project by next fall.
Alberta government halts plans to allow seismic testing on Marie Lake
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070905/national/alta_seismic_testing_...
Wed Sep 5, 8:31 AM
EDMONTON (CP) - The Alberta government has halted a plan to allow controversial seismic testing on Marie Lake.
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Premier Ed Stelmach announced Tuesday night that there were too many safety questions about the technology involved in drilling for oilsands under water.
'We'll break the law if need be'
Marie Lake resident vows to block seismic testing
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2007/09/04/4468539-sun.html
By CARTER HAYDU, SUN MEDIA
Cabin owners protesting seismic testing at Marie Lake are so determined to keep oilsands development off their water, that they're prepared to block the lake to seismic crews when they try to test the area.
Leading the eco-revolution
Activist Clayton Thomas-Muller is building an 'inclusive movement for climate justice' in Canada.
http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?x=61919
by Nina Winham
September 4, 2007
It was a lake without stories that first signaled something wrong to Clayton Thomas-Muller and fed the future activist's passion for justice. A lake with no stories and no life, spread thin across his peoples' traditional territory.
